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100			_aChatterjee, Somdeep _9120249
245		0	_aWomen’s Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multidimensional Policy in India
260			_bEconomic Development and Cultural Change
260			_c2024
300			_a801-832
520			_aIn this paper, we study a multidimensional women's empowerment program from India to estimate its effects on intimate partner violence faced by women. We exploit plausibly exogenous geographical variation in the implementation of the program and cohort-variation generated by eligibility rules to estimate our effects. Using a reduced form difference-in-differences design, we find evidence of lesser-reported emotional and physical violence for women potentially exposed to the program. Overall, women reported lesser intimate partner violence and controlling behavior on account of the empowerment intervention. We conjecture that improved anthropometric outcomes, higher literacy, and better labor market opportunities serve as potential mechanisms causing this effect.
650			_a Higher Literacy _9120250
650			_a Intimate Partner Violence _9120251
650			_a Multidimensional Policy in India _9120252
650			_a Physical Violence _966133
650			_aWomen's Empowerment _965879
700			_a Poddar, Prashant _9120253
856			_uhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721281
999			_c133672 _d133672